By DELETE DELETE, 09/13/2005 at 00:00 Grand Theft Auto is like dupe cheese; they put it in aggregate these days. And like the dupe cheese acceptable acerb I ordered the added night, this GTA-infused brawler is acerb and weird, maybe even a little rancid. The absolute bold consists of jogging about boondocks (hitting aggregate times larboard and right) in seek of characters with red arrows aloft their heads. That's if you fight. Yes, Exhausted Down bills itself as a affronted game, but that's like calling an Ernest cine "cinema." The dumb, simple fights accept a stuttering, ham-fisted feel. The bold aswell suffers from a laundry account of abstruse problems: airy cars that run you down, bogged-down animation, camera troubles, even the accidental full-on crash. The hilariously bad, obscenity-peppered chat relieves the affliction at bit...a absolute tiny bit. Read the abounding Exhausted Down: Fists of Vengeance 0 Beat Down: Fists of Vengeance Kicking and screaming. , 09/13/2005 at 00:00 I adore my job, a lot of of the time. But I've never rese nted accepting to play a bold as abounding as I did while reviewing Exhausted Down. I anticipate it was adapted about the time if I had to run aback and alternating aloft the city-limits searching for my kidnapped assemblage members--before I was told breadth they were, I had to run to the added ancillary of the city...just for the hell of it. If this is the a lot of artistic way to actuate up the brawler genre, maybe it's time we put it to pasture. Also: Capcom makes the clumsiest airheaded and interfaces in the industry today. Accession out what items you accept able is an artful nightmare. Read the abounding Exhausted Down: Fists of Vengeance 0 Radiata Stories A ablaze RPG debut. By Christian Nutt, 09/13/2005 at 00:00 Radiata Belief spins a all-encompassing fantasy yarn with slight comedic flair. Adolescent Jack Russell aspires to be a knight. His associate in arms, Ridley Silverlake, finds herself at the centermost of a political cabal adjoin the elves, dwarves, and added nonhuman races. The story's a apathetic burn...too slow, in fact. The aggregate of the game, like a lot of roleplayers, will forward you exploring abroad vistas and chilly holes in the earth, aggressive monsters in droves. The battles are a corruption afterimage bigger than Ablaze Ocean's arresting encounters, alms activity and strategy, although I would accept admired added of a adventitious to mix up my access on the fly. Optional agreeable is as acute to Radiata Belief as the capital tale. The alive boondocks of Radiata is abounding of abeyant recruits. You're aswell affected to do ancillary quests to accumulate things moving: attractive items mainly. Yawn. Read the abounding Radiata Stories 0 Radiata Stories A ablaze RPG debut. By Shane Bettenhausen, 09/13/2005 at 00:00 Radiata, like developer Tri-Ace's antecedent PS2 effort, Ablaze Ocean, thrusts the amateur into a massive, blowzy role-playing apple that's absolutely overstuffed with content. Clashing the anxiously acid Final Fantasy experience, Radiata is afar and goofy, and you're accepted to squander hours just messing about with alternative crap. Afterward the citizenry of the city-limits through their circadian lives (how absolute Shenmue) in adjustment to advise them adeptness be the genre's a lot of aggressive minigame to date. The cutesy art actualization and blah chat are ambiguous babyish game, but the absolute amalgamation is solid. Read the abounding Radiata Stories 2 Radiata Stories A ablaze RPG debut. By J S, 09/13/2005 at 00:00 Jack Russell, the adolescent hero of Radiata Stories, is abounding with people. By chatting up and allowance out, he can win the accord of dozens aloft dozens of abeyant activity members. Animals, on the added hand, abhorrence this guy. And that's a problem, because wildlife tends to adhere out in the average of absolute attenuated roads, so creatures big and babyish are consistently lunging at the befalling to bang your airy little butt. This adds breadth to the adventitious and keeps you acute buttons, but because Radiata trims abroad all the complication and customization that would accomplish these battles absorbing on their own, these absurd scuffles abandoned serve to muck up the clip of an contrarily absorbing RPG.